#reincarnation gone wrong

Alternate universe nonsense where destiny kind of… glitches? Yes. Always yes.

BUT.

I need people to lean harder into the ANGST of it all.

Imagine losing your parents when you’re young. Growing up with their love preserved in amber in your mind. Turning them into something sacred. Untouchable. Perfect.

And then cosmic shenanigans happen and you realize... they’re back.

They’re alive.

But they don’t remember you.

Not your name. Not your face. Not the way you used to fall asleep between them on stormy nights. Nothing.

And it gets worse.

They don’t fall in love again.

Like in this version Danny is Thomas reincarnated, Paulina is Martha, but he ends up with Sam. Even tho Danny does like Paulina at some point. Maybe he even reminds her of something she can’t place. But she doesn’t choose him. They don’t choose each other.

Do you understand the specific flavor of devastation that is?

You grow up idolizing your parents’ love story. You build your entire emotional foundation on the fact that they were inevitable. Soulmates. Cosmic constants.

And then the universe rerolls.

And this time they’re not.

And you just have to stand there. Watching. Unable to interfere. Because what do you even say???

“Hi. You don’t know me but in another life you were married and had me and you loved each other so much the city still echoes with it.”

You can’t force them together. You can’t demand destiny behave.

So what does Bruce do?

Does he try to interfere? Subtly push them together? Or does he freeze because if he manipulates them into loving each other, then is it even real?

What’s more painful:

Accepting that their love wasn’t inevitable

The kage of a secretly revived Uzushio and her shadow~

Kiana dying at some point, only to wake up as a purple teen with a bleeding forehead, surrounded by people she doesn't know, "oh god oh fuck." Reincarnated into a version of her past self(Sirin), only to completely derail it by falling flat on her face and having her memories return via concussion.

Terrified at the possibility of going through everything all over again, she throws herself out a window and runs off into the wilds, and eventually finds her way on to Hua's doorstep.

Very confused second-time pioneer birb confronted with this raving, panicked girl that somehow knows her.

Kia's desperately trying to explain who she is in a way that makes sense and doesn't sound crazy. But she's talking too fast that it's practically incomprehensible.